Dr. Vijay Kumar sees a wide range of patients in his West Branch, Michigan practice. He treats young people and senior citizens, and has provided care to people with obesity. And he is able to help people who are suffering from arthritis, too.
People with arthritis often have stiff joints, mainly because they try not to make movements that will increase their arthritic pain. Unfortunately, this has the effect of making the stiffness and pain worse. But the good news is that people with arthritis can often benefit from physical therapy.
A good physical therapist can teach the patient how to work out the stiffness in their joints without further damaging them. The objective of the treatment is to get the patients back to where they can perform their normal, every day activities without difficulty and with minimal pain, if any at all. The primary focus of much physical therapy is to increase the patient’s range of motion, because a good range of motion is a key to the ability to perform most daily activities. And by building strength in the muscles that move the affected joint, the physical therapist can better stabilize the patient’s weakened areas.
Before Dr. Vijay Kumar opened his practice in West Branch, he was a staff therapist at Rehab Hospital in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He also worked at the Caro Center of the Michigan Department of Community Health, where he supervised its rehabilitation department. He earned a Doctor of Physical Therapy degree from Boston University in 2012.
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